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I know this is from two years ago, but you really need to research before you post. I live in Alaska. We've had a bipartisan coalition for years. It had nothing to do with Ranked Voting, which is highly unpopular in Alaska. A repeal vote is very narrowly winning (we'll find out in a couple of days), but that doesn't really deal with it honestly. The Vote No on the Repeal crowd spent over $12 million (mostly from Lower 48 dark money PACs) trying to get Alaskans to vote against repeal while the Repeal crowd spent $100,000 from Alaskan donors. So the narrow win is not an example of Alaskans being uncertain of how much they hate Ranked Voting, so much as it is a sign that money can really confuse people's vote.

What the bipartisan coalition does is take a consistent Republican majority in the Alaska Legislature and turns it into a Democratic-led coalition. The Alaskan people try to send more Republicans in hopes of needed reform, but if they don't have a strong majority, they form the coalition with the Democratics who then push their nonsense legislation. Alaska is $1 billion in the hole with the budget, stealing money from Alaska families, and there's nothing we can do about it because of this biapartisan coalition. It may look like a miracle to you, but to Alaskans it looks like a looming disaster.

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